Use Of Symbolism In "The Catcher In The Rye" and "The Great Gatsby" There are many writers like James Joyce‚ Patrick Kananach and Thomas Moore who use symbolism to convey and support indirect meaning in their writings. J.D. Salinger and F. Scott Fitzgerald both use symbolism in similar ways. In both "The Catcher In The Rye" and "The Great Gatsby"‚ the authors used symbolism to convey emotions and reality. In "The Catcher In The Rye"‚ J.D. Salinger uses Holden’s red hunting cap‚ the exhibits
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“she used to read to us without pity; forcing words‚ lies‚ other folks’ habits‚ whole lives upon us two‚ sitting trapped and ignorant underneath her voice.” Mama says the words towards Dee and her past years in the house ever since she left. Dee has come back after many years‚ and she is coming back for her family’s heritage artifacts‚ that have been passed down for generations. Instead of coming back to her family‚ she only wants these items because she believes that this generation of her family
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adulthood. Considered a coming-of-age novel‚ it deals with complex issues of identity‚ belonging‚ death‚ and alienation. Salinger uses symbolism in the text to convey these themes to the reader. Symbolism is a way of adding depth and meaning to a story‚ while conveying a complex idea that can be understood and recognized in a variety of ways. In doing this‚ Salinger uses symbolism throughout the entire text of The Catcher in the Rye. Salinger makes Holden’s red hunting hat a crucial symbol in the
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Symbolism is often found in various types of writing and is used simply to enhance the tone of a work. While he uses many different tactics and technics to express his ideas‚ in The Great Gatsby‚ F. Scott Fitzgerald defaults to using symbolism to express both the varying moods according to the situation as well as to express how the wealth of a person affects the opinion of others. One example of this is found when Gatsby wears the power colors of wealth to show Daisy how important he is. Fitzgerald
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makes use of symbolism and feminine status in Puritan New England‚ giving The Scarlet Letter a complex plot. American transcendentalist Nathaniel Hawthorne was born on July 4‚ 1804 in Salem‚ Massachusetts to Elizabeth Manning and Nathaniel Hathorne (Stewart 2). It is said that Hawthorne inherited his
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view. In a 1966 essay reprinted in his book Morning Yet on Creation Day‚ he says that‚ by using English‚ he presents "a new voice coming out of Africa‚ speaking of African experience in a world-wide language." He recommends that the African writer use English "in a way that brings out his message best without altering the language to the extent that its value as a medium of international exchange will be lost. [The writer] should aim at fashioning out an English which is at once universal and able
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Robbie O’Brien Structural functionalism is the idea that everything that operates in a society has a certain function and role that it plays in order to make a large society work. I think that it can be broken down like a Car. a car has many parts‚ that all work together in order to make the car go‚ for example a car has the engine part‚ but a car won’t move without all the other parts that officially makes it a ‘car.’ Just like a society‚ if we were to just have the giant corporations‚ and the
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The novels If I Die in a Combat Zone and The Things They Carried were both written by Tim O’Brien. Tim O’Brien is a Vietnam War veteran and all of the novels he wrote are about his times in the war. He includes the same characters in the stories‚ but changed their names and descriptions. I do not believe that O’Brien wrote the books for any political reason. Both of the novels have very much in common including the style that it is written‚ and the stories that are told. There are also differences
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1.) I think the most crucial in the plot is when Tom breaks Myrtle’s nose for her bringing up Daisy. This displays Toms violent and volatile behavior. It also foreshadows future trouble with Daisy and Tom and Myrtle’s indiscretion. 2.) Nick meets Toms mistress when they are riding the commuter train one day‚ and Tom forces Nick to join him as he gets off at one of the stops. This stop just so happens to be George Wilsons garage. George Wilson is the husband of Myrtle‚ Toms lover. 3.) Myrtle reacts
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relation to other people; the extended self – the self in relation to its past actions; the private self – the emotions and thoughts that are only yours; and the conceptual self – the roles that we‚ as people‚ play in society to others. In The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien is a story of Tim’s journey to self-knowledge. The story of one unified self would not for either Neisser or O’Brien. While reading‚ O’Brien tells stories about himself and the people close to him before‚ during‚ and after the
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